Steve Harvey on Terence Crutcher Shooting: ‘This is Crazy, This Country Losing It’

Steve Harvey, Meek Mill, Trey Songz, D.L. Hughley and many others took to social media to express their outrage at the fatal police shooting of Terence Crutcher, an unarmed 40-year-old black man.

Tulsa, Oklahoma police released video footage on Monday of Crutcher being shot and killed by a white officer after police responded to a stalled vehicle on Friday. The video has since gone viral and ignited backlash over the continuing disproportionate rate of police brutality against black men.

“I just seen a terrorist survive a shootout with police after blowing some s— up and later on that day a black man shot down for no reason at all,” Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill posted on Instagram Tuesday.

Many others echoed his sentiments, wondering how Ahmad Khan Rahami, the man who is suspected of carrying out bombings in New York and New Jersey this past weekend, was able to survive a shootout with police but Crutcher was shot and killed with his hands up.

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Comedian D.L. Hughley also called out, by name, people who were opposed to Kaepernick’s protest.

“All the people from Jerry Rice to Jason Whitlock to Ray Lewis to Rodney Harrison who were so upset about Colin Kaepernick not standing up, I wish all of them were just as upset about Terence Crutcher getting shot down,” Hughley said in a video. “Because as I recall, that’s how this whole s— started.”

“Family Feud” host Steve Harvey wondered how four officers couldn’t simply tackle an unarmed man and had to resort to shooting him.

“How four people got to start shooting one unarmed man,” said Harvey in a video posted to his Twitter. “This is crazy, this country losing it.”

Crutcher’s death is the latest in a string of police shootings of black men. Earlier this summer, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile made headlines in Minnesota and Louisiana, respectively, when they were killed by police.

According to a Washington Post’ database that tracks police shootings, Crutcher is one of 162 black men to have been killed by law enforcement officers this year.